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...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her. -- E. Sue Blume
As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.] -- Judith Lewis Herman
Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches! -- Diane Chamberlain
Follow your heart, not the law. -- Steven L. Sheppard
A story is a wondrous invention. -- Chris Womersley
Gay men! And it's incest! With the same face! -- Bisco Hatori
There is an intergenerational reoccurrence rate of 30% in incest. -- G. Pirooz Sholevar
Look past our kinship, and towards a romantic relationship! -- Steven L. Sheppard
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We must avoid possession," he said. "But, oh, let me kiss you. -- Anais Nin
I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world. -- Neil Jordan
The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse. -- Dena Rosenbloom
Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love... -- Neil Jordan
And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself. -- V.C. Andrews
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Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life -- Lynette Gould
Mind Your Language in the Presence of PatriachsQ. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather. -- S. Caroline Taylor
In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system. -- Renee Fredrickson
The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. -- Chris Womersley
Are you going to spank me, daddy? I'm a very bad girl! (bending over naked)"Oh yeah daddy - spank my ass harder!!! -- Alanah Skye
He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from. -- Steven L. Sheppard
After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it. -- Chris Womersley
One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible. -- Chris Womersley
After they broke up, Renaldo's ex girlfriend said to never again date an older woman. And he wisely listened to her, because his mother only had his best interest in mind. -- Jarod Kintz
In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, the offspring were invariably gifted. Sera and Trace's sons were noted psych-scientists. -- Belinda McBride
Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.p26 -- Marilyn Van Derbur
The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night. -- Alison Miller
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words. -- George R. R. Martin
Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden. -- Marcia Sirota
My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about. -- Erin Merryn
I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuing) "But when he thinks of me, he thinks: sister! Think: Byblis! BYBLIS! I don't think of him as my brother, I think of him as CAUNUS! -- Steven L. Sheppard
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. -- Jasper Fforde
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. -- Chris Christie
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth -- Margaret Mead
She had all the best things wrong with herâ??incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky. -- Peter Cameron
It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space. -- B. J. Novak

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